Palaephatoidea 2174036 204421884 2008-04-09T10:32:14Z Vigilius 6052252 {{Taxobox | name = Palaephatoidea | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Arthropod]]a | classis = [[Insect]]a | superordo = [[Amphiesmenoptera]] | ordo = [[Lepidoptera]] | subordo = [[Glossata]] | cohorto = [[Myoglossata]] | subcohorto = [[Neolepidoptera]] | infraordo= [[Heteroneura]] | section= [[Heteroneura]] | superfamilia = '''Palaephatoidea''' | familia = '''Palaephatidae''' | diversity = About 60 species | diversity_link = Lepidopteran diversity | subdivision_ranks = [[Genus]] | subdivision = ''[[Apophatus]]''<br/> ''[[Azaleodes]]''<br/> ''[[Metaphatus]]''<br/> ''[[Palaephatidae|Palaephatus]]''<br/> ''[[Plesiophatus]]''<br/> ''[[Ptyssoptera]]''<br/> ''[[Sesommata]]'' }} '''Palaephatoidea''' is a [[superfamily]] of insects in the [[Lepidoptera]] order with a single family, [[Palaephatidae]] with seven known genera. These "[[Gondwana]]land moths" exhibit a [[disjunct]] distribution occurring mainly in [[South America]] (Davis, 1986), with four species in eastern [[Australia]] and [[Tasmania]] and one in [[South Africa]] (Davis, 1999). The larvae spin together leaves of [[Proteaceae]] (''Ptyssoptera'')[http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-curation/projects/hostplants/browse.dsml?searchPageURL=browse.dsml&Family=Palaephatidae&Genus=&Species=&Country=&sort=Family] or [[Verbenaceae]] (''Azaleodes'') (Nielsen, 1987). [[Palaephatoidea]], a typical [[monotrysia]]n group, is one two main candidates as the [[sister group]] of most of the Lepidoptera, the [[Ditrysia]] (see [[Tischerioidea]] and also Wiegmann ''et al.'', 2002). ==References== *Davis, D.R. (1986). A new family of monotrysian moth from austral South America (Lepidoptera: Palaephatidae), with a phylogenetic review of the Monotrysia. ''Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology'', '''434''': 1-202. *Davis, D.R. (1999). The Monotrysian Heteroneura. Ch. 6, pp. 65-90 in Kristensen, N.P. (Ed.). ''Lepidoptera, Moths and Butterflies''. Volume 1: Evolution, Systematics, and Biogeography. Handbuch der Zoologie. Eine Naturgeschichte der Stämme des Tierreiches / Handbook of Zoology. A Natural History of the phyla of the Animal Kingdom. Band / Volume IV Arthropoda: Insecta Teilband / Part 35: 491 pp. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York. *Nielsen, E.S. (1987). The recently discovered primitive (non-Ditrysian) family Palaephatidae (Lepidoptera) in Australia. ''Invertebrate Taxonomy'', '''1'''(2): 201-229. *Wiegmann, B.M., Regier, J.C. and Mitter, C. (2002). Combined molecular and morphological evidence on the phylogeny of the earliest lepidopteran lineages. ''Zoologica Scripta'', '''31'''(1): 67-81. doi:10.1046/j.0300-3256.2001.00091.x ==Sources== *''Firefly Encyclopedia of Insects and Spiders'', edited by Christopher O'Toole, ISBN 1-55297-612-2, 2002 ==External links== *[http://tolweb.org/Palaephatidae Tree of Life] *[http://www.ento.csiro.au/gallery/moths/Palaephatidae ''Azaleodes micronipha'' Australian Moths Online] *[http://leptree.net/drupal/Palaephatidae_head Head] {{Lepidoptera}} [[Category:Moths]] {{moth-stub}} {{wikispecies|Palaephatoidea}}